Calzaghe Appreciation Thread!!!

Discussion in 'World Boxing Forum' started by dubace, Oct 1, 2011.

  1. JMP

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    Calzaghe's skilled, sure, but Hagler was better in most of the departments you listed.
     
  2. OPBF

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    I only listed 4 departments.

    Size is Calzaghe all the way.
    Speed is debatable because they use them in different manners.
    Skill advantage is debatable because one is more orthodox and the other is very unorthodox. Both are very skilled in their respective styles. Both are very smart.
    Chin's don't punch each other, the only reason I posted that is because it's difficult to see either one getting messed up by the other in a KO. That's all the chin is for. They both got hard chins.
     
  3. Hard Don

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    Calzaghe, his promoter and his shitty WB0(gus) run are the epitome of eveything that is wrong with boxing today.
     
  4. JMP

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    feints, dodging, cheating, jabbing, infighting, straight-shooting, upper body movement, footwork
     
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    They have two very different styles. You can't say one guy is better than the other in those skills because they use them very differently. They are just both very skilled.
     
  6. dubace

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    it's funny you guys have evidence of how good he and his opposition was and you still try to say he's a good fighter with skills and etc. the fact that he fought at 178 also just shows he had a size advantage too against many of his opponents.
     
  7. dubace

    dubace Well-Known Member Full Member

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    i didn't know you were gay? you and bailey should get along very well.
     
  8. FORMIDABLE

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    I appreciate JC for sure. Watching Martinez today I couldn't help but think he looked like a poor man's Calzaghe with less stamina, only he has power. Calzaghe was truly elite. He never held or used spoiling tactics, just ***** slapped his opponents to victory. One of the toughest H2H styles to come up against that I've seen.
     
  9. Exactabox

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    This about sums up JC's career
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  10. KillSomething

    KillSomething Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Calzaghe a g. GTFO and go do something bad to yourself.
     
  11. madballster

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    Calzaghe fights were often times horrible to watch. Boring personality, too. Too many 12 round slapfests that were a cure for insomnia don't sit well with boxing fans.
     
  12. bailey

    bailey Loyal Member Full Member

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    Dubace still cant live with the fact that Calzaghe beat Hopkins :|

    Get over it :lol:
     
  13. OPBF

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    Dude, he fought at 178. Most Super Middleweights (168 at weigh in) would gain just as much as he did on fight night. Normal poundage goes to about 10 lbs after rehydration. He basically didn't have a size advantage against other SMWs of the very modern era. He would have a massive size advantage against the middleweights of the 80s just because is the only reason that size is being brought up.
     
  14. Boxed Ears

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    Listen up, dumbass. Just because Bailey and I happen to know how enormous Super Joe's **** is and because we've done lines of coke off of it, with him, does NOT mean we are gay! :twisted:
     
  15. KillSomething

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    :lol::rofl

    Any man who can snort a line of coke off his own dick is a winner in my book.